Directed by:
David R. EllisScreenplay:
Will HayesCinematography:
Gary CapoComposer:
Graeme RevellCast:
Sara Paxton, Dustin Milligan, Chris Carmack, Katharine McPhee, Chris Zylka, Alyssa Diaz, Joel David Moore, Donal Logue, Sinqua Walls, Joshua Leonard (more)Plots(1)
Arriving by boat at her family's Louisiana lake island cabin, Sara (Sara Paxton) and her friends quickly strip down to their swimsuits for a weekend of fun in the sun. But when star football player Malik (Sinqua Walls) stumbles from the salt-water lake with his arm torn off, the party mood quickly evaporates. Assuming the injury was caused by a freak wake-boarding accident, the group realizes they have to get Malik to a hospital on the other side of the lake, and fast. But as they set out in a tiny speedboat, the college friends discover the lake has been stocked with hundreds of massive, flesh-eating sharks! As they face one grisly death after another, Sara and the others struggle desperately to fend off the sharks, get help and stay alive long enough to reach the safety of dry land. (Entertainment in Video)
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A group of beautiful young people go to enjoy their leisure time in a house on an island in the middle of a lake. They are having a lot of fun until the moment a shark (that a group of local psychopaths has released in the lake) bites the hand of one of them. From this point on, the script begins to resemble a farce – everything gets pointlessly complicated (people fall into the water, boats explode), the IQ of the characters falls to 50 (Sara’s behaviour towards her ex-boyfriend), etc., plus predictability at all levels. And on top of that, the film has a PG13 rating, this means hardly any blood, hardly any nakedness, hardly any vulgarity, which is terrible for a summer teenage horror flick with sharks. Four points out of ten for the good execution. If anything, you can at least notice that the creators have some experience with a camera. But that’s as much of consolation as if you were told that, instead of an utter ignorant, you would be operated by a student of medicine who’s just finished the first semester.
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A summary of many kinds of non-acting. The most interesting thing about it is that its creators didn't consider it essential to include even a second of any suspense in a horror film (or thriller, as it says here). The blood is flowing, the sharks are growling and leaping above the surface, everything is obviously serious... No, it's not. It's been two weeks since I finally saw Spielberg's Jaws in the theater, so I may be biased, but... No, I'm not. Shark Night 3D is really stupid. And anyone who doubts the sanity of the crew that filmed it should wait for the incredible music video after the end credits. That scared me about a hundred times more than any shark.
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